These glass plates, bowls and platters are handcrafted by Pittsburgh based Riverside Design Group of post-industrial / pre-consumer recycled glass.
There are 10 shapes / sizes which are available in 12 luminous colors and are made for every day use - food, dishwasher and microwave safe.
Link: Riverside Design Group
Via: Mettaefficient
We featured a different table called the Concord "plug table" a while back, but this design by Munich based designer Matthias Demacker is a totally different concept.
The form is elegantly simple, a table reduced to the minimum components. The top is made from compactforming HPL which can be made in any color. The tube steel legs can be removed by hand with no tools, and allow for two different table heights. The design also makes the table easily portable.
The table was given the Interior Innovation Award for Best Detail at the IMM 2005.
Link: Demacker Design [Thanks, Matthias!]
Browsing the Moss online store, we were smitten with these industrial looking, albeit pricey, sterling silver napking rings designed by Italian architect, Gabriele De Vecchi. For a cool $1275, this set of 6 rings can be yours as well.
For me, however, I think I'll stick with bicycle cogs and some silver Rustoleum.
Link: Modern Rings (Moss Online)
Born in Finland, raised in Sweden and now residing in San Francisco, California, self-taught designer Lotta Jansson creates a range of beautiful screen-printed home products. Her colorful and fun designs include ceramics, table linens, bags, stationary and more.
Lotta has both a deep appreciation for nature’s limitless beauty and a love for modern urban style. The balance between these two worlds is unequivocally present in Lotta’s contemporary organic designs.She started Lotta Jansdotter in 1996, and opened her San Francisco studio and store front in 2002. Lotta's designs are also available online and at retail stores around the world.
Link: Lotta Jansdotter
Via: urbanSPY
notNeutral is... well... not neutral. And not ashamed of it. A division of Los Angeles multi-disciplinary design firm Rios Clementi Hale Studios, notNeutral offers "confident, hip and streetwise products that express individuality and choice." It's kind of like the anti-Pottery Barn.
Their products offer a broad range of dinnerware, pillows, vases, children’s furniture, and home accessories of all kinds. It's funky groovy stuff, as if four decades of design and style have collided... and it works.
They have their own retail store on Melrose in Los Angeles, a web store, and are carried by specialty retailers.
Link: notNeutral
We dig these funky glasses by Houston, Texas based Plodes Studio. At first glance we thought they were shot glasses (and we were thinking that Pyrex was a good choice of material to withstand slamming down on the bar), but they are actually 7 inches tall and 3 inches in diameter. Must've been that thick rim that threw us off... anyway, we liked them even more once we realized they were full sized glasses.
Glass is fluid too. These glasses are reminiscent in what they contain. DROOPLETS are handmade of strong Pyrex glass and are available in S, M, or L. The unique design also insulates hot or cold liquids. Use them rightside up or upside down.Groovy.
Designer: John Paul Plauche
Link: Plodes Studio
These wonderful handmade ceramics by Copenhagen based Anne Black are well worthy of the fine tradition of contemporary Scandinavian design. There are currently two collections, "Tilt" tablewares and "Seam" interior accessories.
The products are porcelain cast in plaster forms or hand thrown and are glazed with non-toxic glazes. Many of the designs feature a graphic red silk screened design.
Beautiful.
Link: Anne Black
Lately, it seems as if bamboo products are popping up everywhere and obviously for good reasons: It's a fantastic material to work with and it replenishes itself in half the time as other wood (yes, we know it's technically a grass). On that note, Ekobo has an entire product line crafted from bamboo. Trays, bowls, and stools to name just a few.
Made of eco-friendly bamboo, ekobo is a line of contemporary tableware designed in France and hand-crafted in Vietnam in respect of the rules of equitable commerce.
Designer: ekobo
Link: illico design [Thanks, Thomas!]
Unique package combining a plate, bowl, cup, utensils, and placemat.
"A personal plate, bowl, cup, and utensils, all snugly wrapped together in a desktop-sized placemat. This set of dishes expands your good-design sense to the office and stands with upright readiness next to a desk or in the communal kitchen cupboard. Made of high-heat malamine, the dishes add a touch of practical elegance to our takeout soup and sandwich."Link: Vessel-Store
It's an aircraft carrier! It's a plane! No, it's a table!
We like the strong presence and wonderfully simple design of this piece by Staten Island based modern craftsman, James Murphy.
I try to build pieces that promote a sensation of balance through the use of subtle proportion and line as adornment.Crafted of solid American walnut.
Link: James Murphy Design
While we have visited GRO's website many times before, we have always overlooked this little gem. Though this design is not being produced, it just struck us as worth sharing.
The table features two circular sockets in the center of the table that can accept any number of modular plug-in pieces including electrical outlets, light fixtures, and various containers.
Link: GRO Design
This pine table from Felix de Voss is constructed of Oregon pine. The table top and seats are made of MDF, PUR laquered. The table is also includes stainless steel fittings.
Designer: Felix de Voss
Link: P.G.A.L.W.
"Those irritating ringmarks that mugs and cups leave..... well, you can turn them into a nice floral pattern now with a set of Stamp Cups. The pattern on the base of the cup match up so you can join as many marks as you want."
Via: Sensory Impact
Link: Thorsten Van Elten
Designers: Valeria Miglioli & Barnaby Barford
Fun new dining table from Crate & Barrel subsidiary, CB2. If you haven't already looked, check out the recent LA Times article (below) on knockoffs. Sort of reminds you of that Noguchi table doesn't it? Needless to say, this is an attractive table at an attractive price.
"Web of intrigue and desire. Along came our spyder. Seat six down beside her. Handcrafted steel spokes crisscross and radiate in a dramatic black ice finish. Beveled glass top takes in the view."Link: CB2
We noticed a trend on some of the other design blogs this morning in that several of them were featuring glassware. For the past few years, we've been using highballs from the Balance barware collection featured at Pottery Barn (yes, Pottery Barn) and we love them. Thick, heavy, sturdy, simple. Pour yourself two glasses of your favorite beverage -- one for each hand -- and you'll get quite a workout curling these 18 oz. behemoths. I wouldn't drink my, uh, non-fat milk any other way.
"Artisans in Poland give these handblown glasses heavy bases and smoothly flared sides that make them a pleasure to hold. Before each glass cools and hardens, the blower uses scissors to cut and shape the rim. Each is oversized to hold plenty of your favorite libation. Made from soda lime glass that's as clear as water."Link: Pottery Barn
"The tea lantern by Todd MacAllen and Stephanie Forsythe is clearly a model of product design in the great tradition of Mies and Jacobsen. The Canadian designers have used latest glass technology to create a transparent teapot with an integral vacuum jacket, which conserves heat and allows the simple cylinder to be picked up by hand."
"Designed by Anders Nørgaard this wine rack can also be considered as furniture due to its beautiful, sculptural shape. The wine rack can hold up to 18 wine bottles and minimalistic in its design, the wine bottles themselves form part of the design. The wine rack is made from polished aluminium."
Designer: Anders Nørgaard
Link: Rosendahl
Via: Fitzsu